Daily Illuminator Archive for July 2005

The winners of the 2005 Origins Awards were announced yesterday at, appropriately, the Origins International Game Expo in Columbus, Ohio. In the Best Nonfiction Publication category, Pyramid Magazine and editor Steven Marsh were recognized . . .
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Yes, GURPS Powers has moved. Doubtless our more eagle-eyed fans have already spotted the move from August to "Farther Out."
Remember our cry of angst a few weeks ago about the things that happen with big books? . . .
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This is thoroughly wonderful. I found out about Brooklyn Superhero Supply in Jon Kilgannon's blog, where he gives much more actual data than you can find on the store's official page . . .
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Yesterday I mentioned a Mad Science webcomic that I may have mentioned a couple of times before. Today I want to point you to a Mad Science webcomic that I have NOT mentioned before . . . not in that context.
Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio, has been around for a while as a print comic . . .
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We're very sorry to report that Scott Haring, our e23 editor, was in a serious traffic accident while returning home after July 4. His youngest boy was killed, and Scott required immediate surgery . . .
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While the rest of the world has been playing vampire games, FizerPharm has been doing serious research. We'll all no doubt be much better off - or at least, those in the upper income brackets will - when the Homo sapiens vampiris genotype is resurrected as our savant servants . . .
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Yesterday's announcement of the November release of GURPS Space - for no good reason - mentioned only one of the authors! It has been fixed now, but for those who read it early in the day: the other author of GURPS Space is James L . . .
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This is our latest release, soon to be on the shelves of a game store near you:
GURPS Character Assistant
GURPS Fourth Edition lets roleplayers create any character they can imagine, from any time or place. They can be customized with hundreds of advantages, disadvantages, and skills, not to mention magic spells, psionic powers, martial arts moves, superpowers, and equipment from pitchforks to starships . . .
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This is the latest release from Steve Jackson Games, now on its way to distributors everywhere and soon to be on the shelves of a game store near you:
Super Munchkin
Fly through the city. Smash the villains . . .
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Looks like everyone needs a ghost writer these days. Those unafraid to confront the pen names "Moses" and "Jesus" can find William Edward Hunt expounding at length on his view that The Bible is a Hoax . . .
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We've posted another free game aid for GURPS Basic Set Fourth Edition on e23!
GURPS Skill Categories is a handy little document that lists the hundreds of skills listed in the GURPS Basic Set Fourth Edition by the various character types that might use them (Animal, Military, Combat, Scholarly, Spy, etc.). The alphabetical skill list in the GURPS Basic Set Fourth Edition is ideal for looking up specific skills by name . . . but not so handy when you're trying to create a character or a template, and want to select a small handful of suitable skills from among the hundreds of options in the Basic Set. This document sorts skills into categories that coincide with likely career paths for adventurers . . .
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I went last year. I did not go this year, not for lack of interest, but because I am even more desperately busy than usual
getting GURPS Banestorm out and working on the next few things
looking for a new office
scheming about computer game stuff . . .
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The building we looked at today DID have a piranha tank! We'd need to cover it . . . an open piranha tank probably drives up your insurance . . . but of course a trap door is easy to add . . .
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